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Author: Dazed_75
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Subject: Re: stopping services from loading
No Michael they do not. You system has USB natively and no PCMIA.

Just as an aside, one of the problems with one of the ubuntu RCs as I recall
was a failure to boot on a lot of desktops based on a failure response on
the probe for pcmia with VERY few desktops have.

On 12/4/06, Michael Havens <> wrote:
>
> well, just killing samba and bluetooth frees about 700KB
> top says total memory is 385264KB and that of that 10042KB is free with
> those afore mentioned services stopped.
>
> as for running chkconfig it isn't on the system. I tried to apt-get it but
> the computer said the program was probably obsolete and that there was no
> instalation canidate.
>
> As for the PCMCIA card I have a USB drive and a USB multicard
> reader/writer; does either of those count?
>
> On Mon, 04 Dec 2006 11:16:27 -0700, Kenneth <> wrote:
>
> > I doubt having these running is affecting your performance, unless you
> > have
> > very little memory to work with. As someone else said, chkconfig is a
> > command-line utility to manipulate this stuff if it exists on your
> > system,
> > and many distros include a graphical utility to check and uncheck
> > services.
> >
> > --- Michael Havens <> wrote:
> >
> >> I was watching bootup and it seems I have a bunch of unnecessary
> >> services
> >> starting at boot.
> >> - PCMCIA
> >> - RAID
> >> - hcid
> >> - sdpd
> >> - SAMBA
> >> - HP Linux Printing and Imaging
> >> I'm not wireless (PCMCIA), I'm not backing up across multiple drives
> >> (RAID), I don't need BLUETOOTH (hcid/sdpd), and I'm not connected with
> a
> >> Windows box, neither do I have a an HP Printer/Scanner.
> >>
> >> Am I correct in what I think these services do? Which file do I need to
> >> comment these entries out of. Perhaps this is what is slowing things
> >> down.
> >>
> >> What do you think?
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